Injury blow for Wigan

New Wigan coach Ian Millward has suffered an injury blow before taking his first training session with a potentially serious injury to New Zealand Test centre David Vaealiki.

The 24-year-old Kiwi, an ever-present since his close-season signing from Parramatta, has been ruled out of the Warriors' engage Super League game at Salford next Monday with a pectoral injury.

The club are still awaiting the results of a scan but the injury, sustained in last Friday's 26-24 home defeat by Huddersfield, is thought to be similar to the one that ruled prop Luke Davico out for the rest of the season.

Vaealiki's absence will leave centre Martin Aspinwall, hooker Wayne Godwin and second rower or centre Stephen Wild as the only ever-presents in the Warriors' injury-hit season.